A New Anatomy of Ireland: The Irish Protestants, 1649-1770 [Hardcover]

Dr. Toby Barnard (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0300096690 | ISBN-13: 978-0300096699 | Publication Date: June 10, 2003 | Edition: First Edition

What was life like for Irish Protestants between the mid-17th and the late-18th centuries? How did experiences differ for peers, squires and gentlemen, for soldiers and shopkeepers, for women and servants? Toby Barnard scrutinises social attitudes and structures in every segment of Protestant society during this formative period. His account, drawing on many contemporary sources, focuses on people, their professions, their preoccupations, and their material worlds. The text presents entertaining episodes and memorable characters while reassessing Ireland's place in the British state and empire and comparing it to other European and colonial societies of the time. Barnard examines the period thematically rather than chronologically and analyses how Protestants sought to retain their precarious social and economic ascendancy. His inquiry provides insights not only into this period of Irish history but also into its enduring impact on the shape and complexity of Irish life.

Editorial Reviews

Review

What was life like for Irish Protestants between the mid-seventeenth and the late-eighteenth centuries? In an account filled with entertaining episodes and memorable characters, Toby Barnard scrutinizes social attitudes and structures in every segment of Protestant society during this period and also reassesses Ireland’s place in the British state and empire.

"Toby Barnard, unparalleled excavator of Irish social history in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, has published the first volume of his magnum opus investigating the origins of this vanishing world, demonstrating its vitality, quirks and variations as never before, and decisively releasing Irish Protestants from the stereotype of the Big House. The richness of this survey lies in the people profiled, through a lifetime of sifting in provincial record offices and family archives as well as more mainstream material."—Ray Foster, Financial Times Magazine

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Toby Barnard, unparalleled excavator of Irish social history in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, has published the first volume of his magnum opus investigating the origins of this vanishing world, demonstrating its vitality, quirks and variations as never before, and decisively releasing Irish Protestants from the stereotype of the Big House. The richness of this survey lies in the people profiled, through a lifetime of sifting in provincial record offices and family archives as well as more mainstream material."--Ray Foster, Financial Times Magazine

"Elegant, amusing, engaging, and exceedingly informative."--Homan Potterton, Irish Times --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 528 pages
• Publisher: Yale University Press; First Edition edition (June 10, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0300096690
• ISBN-13: 978-0300096699
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.4 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,148,918 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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